Satapatha-brahmana
by Julius Eggeling | 1882 | 730,838 words | ISBN-13: 9788120801134
The English translation of the Satapatha Brahmana, including annotations and footnotes. The Sanskrit brahmanas are commentaries on the Vedas, detailling the vedic rituals and various legends. The text contains details on altar-constructions, mantra recitation and various other topics. The Satapatha-brahmana dates to at least the first millenium B...
Additions and Corrections to volume 2 (k膩峁囜笉a 3-4)
Page vii, line 15. Read,--Stambhayagus.
P. xvi, l. 8. Read,--arrangement.
P. xxx, l. 2. Read,--'sixty' for 'forty.'
P. xliv, l. 28. Read,--'recensions' for 'relations.'
P. 3, l. 2 seq. I now take 'p奴ti' in the sense of 'foul,' and would translate thus,--The reason why he touches water is this: man forsooth is impure; in that he speaks untruth, thereby he is foul within. Now water is pure: 'Having become pure, I will enter on the vow,' &c. See Part II, p. 8, n. 1.
P. 9, paragraph 18. Cf. 'mas ignis, quod ibi semen, aqua femina, quod fetus alitur humore.' Varro, L. L. 5, 61.
P. 65, last line. Read,--a composite direction.
P. 94, l. 8. Read,--'vedi' for 'prastara.'
P. 142, l. 1. Read,--'Turn ye back!' for 'draw near!' see Part II, p. 308, n. 1.
P. 166, par. 13. Read,--Now while Indra, being thus pushed aside, was moving on, he addressed . . .
P. 183, l. 6. Dele,--(the moon).
P. 210, note 1. Read twice,--'艣astra' for '艣腻蝉迟谤补.'
P. 221, l. 4 seq. Instead of,--'Before the 搁补办峁蝉 (come),' B. R.'s Dict. interprets, perhaps rightly, 'Safely from the 搁补办峁蝉.'
P. 263, par. 27.--These same deities . . .; for an improved rendering, cf. IV, 4, 4, 5-6.
P. 308, l. 21. For,--'and in pressing,' read 'to wit, in pressing.'
P. 323, l. 15. 'whom, surely, he would not eat;' for this construction, see Part II, p. 31, n. I.
P. 338, l. 9. Read,--Verily, with him . . .
P. 389, l. 26. Read,--'膧yu' for '膧yus.'
II. (VOL. XXVI.)
P. 2, l. 4. Read,--'sacrificer' for 'sacrifice.'
P. 31, note 3. Cf. J. Muir, O. S. T. II, p. 114 note.
P. 71, note 1. According to 膧p. 艢r. X, 20, 12 he is to buy the Soma from a Kautsa Br膩hman; otherwise from any Br膩hman; otherwise from one who is not a Br膩hman.
P. 77, ll. 27, 32. Read,--Subrahma峁噛膩.
P. 103, note 1. Read,--膩py膩yanam.
P. 128, l. 26. Read,--(chadis).
P. 153, l. 6, 10 Rudra cf. III, 7, 3, 11.
P. 201, l. 4. Read,--Samitar.
P. 224, ll. 17-20. Dele thrice 'for.'
P. 267, par. 10. Cf. A. Bergaigne, La R茅ligion V茅dique, I, p. 171.
P. 286, note 3. Read,--sadasy膩n膩峁� hotr膩峁嚹乵.
P. 305, last line. Cf. 膧p. XI, 20, 1 (prav峁泃a-homa).
P. 324, ll. 8, 9. Read,--艢耻办谤补.
P. 334, note 2. Cf. Atharva-veda V, 4, 3; Kuhn, Herabkunft, p. 126 seq.
P. 441, l. 15. Read,--all-beneficent.